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Wasn't Curtin like mid-80s in 1942/1943? It wasn't Newspoll, obviously, but I'm pretty sure he has the all time highest, technically.

Given a number of people choose differently to those two options, I put it to you there are more choices than those.

Given it looks to me it's ended up with Labor 51 to LNP's 49, it's not that far off? 2% is reasonably accurate (or 1% from the exit polls). Anyway, look at my prediction earlier in this thread. I'm pretty sure I won the tipping contest.

My prediction: Anna Bligh will win. It will be fairly close, but not as close as is expected. Otherwise, Queenslanders' teeth will continue to rot away over the next 4 years. You choose!

You can't honestly be counting McEwen. Also, given the result of the 1969 election, I'd hardly call that a success story.

Pauline Hanson's politics are abhorrent to me, but not as much as the way she has been treated by the media. This has no place in respectable political coverage, and the Murdoch press continue to show that no low is too low.

So what's the cut-off date for history to be relevant? You seem to only accept a limited period of time that better suits your arguments, disregarding anything before it. How far back can I go? Is Howard another one? Or am I going too far back there too?

Well she's also nearing 70 these days. It's not so interesting, Billy Hughes was in his day Australia's longest ever serving Prime Minister, and there for the founding of both the Labor and Liberal Parties. But by the time Menzies became PM in 1949, he was no longer on the front bench. Fact is...

I say drop IR, it's too big a double portfolio. She's done all the news item stuff, so now's the time to hand on to someone else suitable (I say bring in Combet to be IR Minister). Eh, she's all right. Leave be. I think in any reshuffle he's clearly the one to be dropped. The one big...

I love you.

Best band of the 00s.

Whereas I'm a Curtinesque sort of Labor, so I'm generally not.

1950s: Miles Davis 1960s: Bob Dylan 1970s: Elvis Costello 1980s: Prince 1990s: Outkast 2000s: Kanye West

Oh stop being a whiny cunt. Why does anyone give a shit about this?

Agreed (well not entirely on the mismanagement front, we'll need to wait and see there). Because Howard never faked being a true blue Aussie bloke. Disagreed. I think it's a bit rough to say he was insincere in his attempts to bring comfort to the victims of that. It's not like he's some...

I'm glad to see someone said that about someone other than me here, even if it's pretty incorrect (I'd say incorrect of me also, but I'm biased). I don't know how you can be so sure this is true. I know you say that's what people say about Howard (I don't particularly see it, but I won't...

Re: VSU is going out? What's everyone's problem with David Barrow? Most everyone I know who knows him likes him well enough. Not at all as disliked as Angus McFarland was, or indeed the previously mentioned Noah White.

The College Dropout or Late Registration, for me.

Weren't Andrew Fisher, John Curtin, Ben Chifley, Gough Whitlam and Paul Keating all "crash and burn radicals"? Aren't they all far more successful than Stephen fucking Smith will ever be? The guy's a dud. There are a number of fine Labor horses to back. Go get behind one of them - Smith's fan...

I dislike these two because they both stand for nothing except their own ambitions and desire for power. They'll happily say whatever they perceive to be the most popular thing at the time. They're bland and repugnant.